Archive for the ‘Field Trials’ Category

Field Trial Season 2016/17: Twelve handlers ran 16 dogs, with 5 dogs featuring in the awards to 3 handlers. In total 17 awards were made which is a significant improvement on the tally of 6 awards from two dogs and two handlers in the 2015/16 season. The breed highlight of the season was the outstanding […]

Weimaraners in Field Trials: Season 2015/16: Introduction: The Hunting Weimaraner maintains a database of UK Field Trial Awards for Weimaraners and their handlers, originally compiled in 2012 from a variety of historical sources, and updated each field trial season since then from on-going field trial results. Season and all-time rankings are then calculated for dogs […]

Weimaraner Field Trial Firsts: HPR Field Trials: Along with the German Short Haired Pointer, the Weimaraner has a long history in trialling in the UK. When the first Weimaraners were imported into the United Kingdom in 1952, there was no such thing as Field Trials for dogs which Hunt, Point and Retrieve. Weimaraners ran in […]